* Posts by Jamie

7 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2007

Blighty's electro-supercar 2.0 uncloaked today

Jamie
Paris Hilton

Cost...

One thing that doesn't seem to have been mentioned much is how much it's likely to cost to charge the darn thing up...

I'm on the train at the minute but I might have a think when I get home if no one's beaten me to a calcuation...

Paris, cos she'll have worked it out by the time I get home.

PC World pips Asus to UK Atom sub-laptop premier

Jamie
Stop

"PC World claimed it was launched today"

Funny that, I bought mine yesterday and it's with DHL right now.

Certainly a cursory google search turns up lots of people that have bought one in-store. Perhaps they ran out of stock, and the next expected delivery is the 7th, rather than it not being launched at all.

Google spanks memory, disk and networking vendors

Jamie

@Chris C

I'm pretty sure this isn't just us, but a lot of our servers don't have graphics cards/integrated chips at all. There's remote administration via some terminal window/remote desktop jobbie or a serial port on the back of the box itself if all goes to pot and you can connect a terminal window through that.

I agree graphics cards are unnecessary but i'm pretty sure a lot of server vendors have thought of that one already...

Apple's Leopard leaps into action

Jamie

Re: Why

I *think* that Apple would also then have the issue of hardware compatibility to worry about.

One reason Apple has managed to achieve this 'it just works' status is that it has a nice firm grip on the hardware it builds its machines with, so it doesn't have to worry about assuring compatibility with a million and one different hardware configurations.

Other OS makers however don't quite have that luxury which (i'm guessing) is why everyone's is finding this Apple BSOD thing quite so funny.

I'd imagine that they've probably considered selling the OS for deployment on non-Mac boxes, but found the issues surrounding hardware compatibility a right headache and more trouble than its worth.

SysAdmin of the Year deadline draws near

Jamie
Paris Hilton

Re: Simon Travalgia

Who the heck is Simon Travalgia (for the uneducated)

Red ring of Xbox death costs Microsoft $1bn

Jamie

To be fair...

To be fair to Microsoft's customer services, I was blighted with a dodgy DVD drive that refused to read anything other than audio CD's and when I spoke to the woman on the phone she was very helpful. I patiently tried the one or two things she suggested (that I knew wouldn't work cos I'd done them, but patience is a virtue after all) and then she took my details and e-mailed me my postage thingy, warning me it'd take 2 odd weeks to come back.

Fine, so I took it down the couriers (i work in london, so no biggie for me) and less than a week later, the thing was back. Maybe I've been lucky, but that seems like pretty good customer service to me.

They're not all eejits either. When I mentioned to the first rep I dealt with that I'd got it 2nd hand, but had the receipts and it was still in warranty (apparently means I can't get warranty repair), he did a quick check, told me that technically I wasn't supposed to get the free repair, but the previous owner hadn't registered it so if i called back and pretended it was mine all along, it'd be fine since they'd have no way of knowing. Now that is excellent customer service!

I'll restate, i'm no MS fanboy, I hate IE and it's strange implementations of W3 standards. I use firefox, thunderbird and Open Office. MS bashing is easy to do, so I thought I'd just share my (rather positive) experience with a company I normally approach with caution.

Orange goes green for festival phone-fuelling

Jamie

I want one!!

where can you get hold of one of these genius devices?